Wow, First Friday in October is tomorrow and I haven’t finished with September yet. I did have a lot of work backed up, but one of the reasons I’m running behind is that I got bogged down with someone’s old Mac. My rant below. But first the wonderful Drum Circle. The intro image was fun to shoot, if not a little awkward to align because it has to be a little wider than I usually prefer an image. I exposed it to keep the kids sharp while keeping the adults slightly off focus. It’s an adult and kid friendly atmosphere. Cliff Giles, the guy who started the phenomenon in the early days by setting his drum outside his wife’s shop on First Fridays – it’s evolved amazingly, is in the center background in the intro shot (and in one of the others here). 

Then a couple individual kid shots. The first was wearing a “ALWAYS AMAZING” shirt and really getting into her playing. The girl in the second is standing in the center enjoying shaking the “rattles” – ok, I have no idew what they’re called. I caught her just as she realized someone was taking a picture.

Added to the First Friday 2021 folio HERE… 

RANT

Please people, if you have any concern whatsoever for the SANITY of friends that you ask to fix problems with your computer please do NOT do ANY of the following, ALL of which I recently had to overcome:

• Neglect to know what your computer password is…

• Have no record of what telephone number OR email address is associated with your Apple account…

• Have no clue what your Apple password is…

• Leave expired credit cards as those used by the accounts…

• Have a computer that, heaven knows how, has NO administrator, with you as a restricted user – how does that even happen. It took a half hour finding and typing terminal commands to get around this.

• List all your major applications as Login Items so they all try to launch on boot-up…

• Change so many settings that I had to Google at least two of them because I had never heard of them (like putting all folder labels off the the right instead of underneath)…

• Have, now get this, over 10,000 items in your download folder because it never occurs to you to empty it…

• Not have a record of your Verizon account name (with neighbors, lots come up)…

• Lose the paperwork so you don’t have the long, multi digit password Verizon gives you… (ok, one for Verizon – including both zeroes and “o”s in a long password with both letters and numbers can get confusing to some people not used to spotting the difference – as well as difficult for the rest of us to explain)

• Kill your keyboard and substitute a 25 year old original iMac keyboard so gunked up it was next to impossible to type on…

All this, adding in that the associated phone number turned out to be their land-line – requiring keeping the phone handy to answer automated calls every time one of those confirmation boxes came up and getting the 4 digit code that way, precious… Both Apple and Verizon were very cooperative and nice about everything – in fact, I got hold of people who, along with me, found humor in the situation.